By Pepper Parr
October 20th, 2023
BURLINGTON, ON
The city of Burlington has two Regional Parks – the Beachway, which is very much in the development stage and the Burloak Waterfront Park that is close to completion.
A quiet part of the park where you can sit and watch the sun rise or set and chat with a friend.
The Burloak Park, way over in the east end of the city, is a very pleasant place. Compares very favourably with Spencer Smith Park that is a Burlington city park that blends into the Beachway Park that is going through a bit of a design change.
Climate change has meant paying more attention to Lake Ontario water levels.
That storey is covered elsewhere in the Gazette.
City Council did its best to convince the Food Truck Festival to move from Spencer Smith to Burloak – the Festival organizers looked at the space – said it didn’t meet their needs and decided that they would take their event to an adjacent community.
That story is covered elsewhere in the Gazette.
For those interested in a quieter park – a trip to Burloak is worth the drive.
A layout of the park and its amenities is set out below. Move cursor over the image to enlarge.
Love this park but it needs more care. The grass is mostly weeds whereas Spencer has much more effort to retain a nicer grassy area.Also an effort to greate a woodland area last year has resulted in a mess of deadwood due to lack of care post planting.